Academic

I work on the phonology-morphology interface, especially phonologically-conditioned allomorphy and ineffability. I'm also interested in models of variation, metrical stress, and French schwa. You can read more about my past and ongoing research here.

I'm currently teaching Ling 1, sections 2 and 3. All of the materials for the class are distributed through CCLE. Office hours are Wed 10-11, Wed 1-2, and by appointment. The syllabus is here.

The English of coastal South Jersey
is close to Philadelphia English, but different in some interesting
ways. Its most remarkable feature is the number of phonological
processes that relate to L: heavy L-vocalization/deletion, post-L
flapping, intrusive-L, and a lot of pre-L vowel mergers. For speakers
from South Jersey, these are all homophonous pairs: cow/cowl,
caw/call, melded/melted, drawling/drawing, colt/cult, fool/full.
These processes can accumulate to result in some fun (and to others
incomprehensible) differences. My favorite examples are the pair
'malty' and 'gaudy', which rhyme: [mɔɾi]
and [gɔɾi], and the pair
'coldest' and 'cultist', which are homophonous: [kɔ:ɾəst].